A rock supergroup that unites seminal shock-rocker Alice Cooper and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry with one of the world's biggest film stars, Johnny Depp, will play Sands Bethlehem Event Center as part of its first-ever tour, it was just announced.

The Hollywood Vampires, which last fall released a self-titled first album and in February played a tribute to late Motörhead guitarist Lemmy at the Grammy Award ceremony, will perform at the event center at 8 p.m. July 1, it was announced.

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Tickets, at $49.50 for general admission standing and $109.50 for reserved seating, will go on sale at 10 a.m. April 15 at www.sandseventcenter.com, the event center box office, www.Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets and at 800-745-3000.

The booking is a coup for the event center. Hollywood Vampires tour sparingly because of difficulty in coordinating the various members' schedules. The group had previously announced just seven shows, three of which were abroad.

The Bethlehem show is among a handful of new dates announced. The tour will start May 24 at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y., an play European shows before returning stateside for the Bethlehem date.

For previous live shows – it made its live debut Sept. 16 and 17 at Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood – the band's three core members were accompanied by bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum, both of Guns N' Roses.

On the new tour, the band will include Sorum, Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots on bass, and rhythm guitarist Tommy Henriksen, who tours with Cooper and worked with Lady Gaga, Meat Loaf.

In addition to the debut shows in Hollywood, the group performed at Brazil's Rock in Rio festival in September. At all its shows, it had been joined by guest performers – Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction, Kesha, Marilyn Manson and Pennsylvania's Lzzy Hale of Halestorm.

Hollywood Vampires takes its name from a celebrity drinking club formed by Cooper in the 1970s whose members included Ringo Starr and the late Keith Moon of The Who.

Cooper has had 10 Top 40 albums and 11 Top 40 singles – including "School's Out," "Elected" and "Only Women Bleed." He first broke onto the national scene as part of his eponymously-named group with the song "Eighteen" in 1970, then went solo in 1976 and continued with the hits "Welcome to My Nightmare" and "I Never Cry."

In all, he has had nine gold and platinum albums, including four platinum albums in a row from 1971-73. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.

Cooper played the event center in 2012, at Penn's Peak near Jim Thorpe in 2006, and headlined Bethlehem's Musikfest festival in 2004. He also opened for Motley Crue's farewell tour show at Allentown Fair in 2014.

Perry is the founding guitarist in Aerosmith, and with the band in a 43-year career has sold nearly 85 million copies of its 32 studio, live and compilation albums. That puts the band in the Top 25 best-selling of all time and makes it the second-best-selling American band ever.

Depp has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, and has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2012, Guinness World Records listed him as the highest paid actor, with earnings of $75 million.

He has starred in well over 50 movies, and has another, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales," set to be released in 2017.